Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures..

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark..

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy..

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have..

Creativity is suspended between memory and forgetting..

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library..

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god..

Life itself is a quotation..

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the….

The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream..

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real..

In my next life I will try to commit more errors..

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers..

Doubt is one of the names of intelligence..

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may ….

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time..

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence..

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat..

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.

I have preferred to teach my students not English literature but my love for certain authors, or, even better, certain pages, or even better than tha….